A baby born with three legs has had his extra limb successfully removed at the age of 11 months after 10 hours of surgery.<br /><br />The video, filmed in Shanghai on March 19, shows the boy - nicknamed Xiao Fei - with a third limb protruding from his groin area, in between his two other legs.<br /><br />According to reports, the extra leg belonged to a parasitic twin.<br /><br />Since Xiao Fei's mum did not attend regular pregnancy check-ups, the parasitic twin had not been detected before his birth.<br /><br />Surgeons removed his extra leg and corrected his deformed right leg successfully in the operation.<br /><br />Parasitic twins are rare and only occur in around one in a million live births, reports said.
